«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 0
Max in Dublin had played FIFA all evening, so in the morning he told Mrs Kelly: «The dog ate it, miss, swear down.» The whole class roared — everyone knew Max's family has a goldfish and no dog.
Who acts: Max, dog, miss, whole class, everyone, family · What happens: play, tell, eat, swear down, roar, know · To what, where: FIFA, Mrs Kelly, it, goldfish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Max, dog, miss, whole class), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 played | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Dublin | case |
| 3 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Max | nmod |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | aux |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 roared | advcl |
| 6 | FIFA | FIFA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 told | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | conj |
| 16 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Kelly | compound |
| 17 | Kelly | Kelly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 ate | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 ate | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ate | nsubj |
| 22 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ate | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 miss | punct |
| 25 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ate | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swear | punct |
| 27 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 miss | acl |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 swear | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 roared | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 class | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 class | amod |
| 33 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roared | nsubj |
| 34 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 knew | punct |
| 36 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 knew | nsubj |
| 37 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 roared | conj |
| 38 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 family | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Max | case |
| 40 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 has | nsubj |
| 41 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 knew | ccomp |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 goldfish | det |
| 43 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 has | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 dog | cc |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 46 dog | det |
| 46 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 goldfish | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · perfect | Max in Dublin | FIFA | evening | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifa=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Max | Mrs Kelly | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent kelly=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | eat in a quote | past | the dog | it | miss obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | swear down in a quote | infinitive | miss not said here | down property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | roar | past | the whole class | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know | past | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | have | present | Max's family | a goldfish and no dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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